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Latest Links Heard on the Show

Sky Rovers annual Model Airshow, July 19th and 20th, 2025
     heard on Sat 18 Jul 26
The 2025 Sky Rovers Annual Airshow will be held on July 19 and 20. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day and is held for the enjoyment of the public and fellow pilots. Pilots come to fly in the show from all over New York State. There are pilots from out of state as well as from Canada. RV and tent camping is allowed.

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An advanced browsing, security and privacy shield
     heard on Sat 18 Jul 26
WOT protects you from malicious websites, scams, phishing attempts, and identity theft. Join our million members community and start your privacy journey today.

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0patch is a microscopic solution for a huge security problem.
     heard on Sat 18 Jul 26
0patch delivers miniature patches of code (“micropatches”) to computers and other devices worldwide in order to fix software vulnerabilities in various, even closed source products. With 0patch, there are no reboots or downtime when patching and no fear that a huge official update will break production.

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Tailscale overlay VPN network
     heard on Sat 18 Jul 26
Tailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.

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Spin the Dial - HAM radio
     heard on Sat 18 Jul 26
Discover Amateur Radio Conversations Worldwide Listen to live voice transmissions on HF amateur radio bands from stations around the globe. Randomly explore conversations from 160m to 10m.

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A UEFI Secure Boot DBX audit toolkit for Linux.
     heard on Sat 18 Jul 26
This project provides a Secure Boot audit toolkit for Linux. It is inspired by Check-UEFISecureBootVariables. It audits whether your UEFI forbidden-signature database (DBX) is up to date with Microsoft’s published Secure Boot revocations (via the open-source SecureBoot Objects project). It can also audit a mounted Linux EFI System Partition (ESP) for binaries that match entries revoked by Microsoft’s Secure Boot DBX. By default, the script verify-dbx-hashes.py scans a mounted EFI filesystem (default: /boot/efi) and checks whether any EFI binaries, shims, or bootloader files match Microsoft’s revoked Authenticode hashes (DBX). If it finds matches, it reports them.

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Knockoff - Amazon Brand Filter
     heard on Sat 18 Jul 26
Filters pseudo-brand junk out of Amazon and can hide sponsored listings. Buy from real, established brands. Amazon is flooded with trademark-squat "brands": random strings like SZHLUX, HORUSDY, and LATTOOK, registered at the USPTO purely to unlock Amazon Brand Registry. They sell commodity goods with no company, no warranty, and no reputation behind them. Knockoff appraises every listing's brand right in your search results and hides, dims, or labels the junk, so what's left is brands with a reputation to lose.

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Bitdefender Web Protection (TrafficLight)
     heard on Sat 18 Jul 26
Antiphishing protection automatically blocks known phishing webpages to prevent users from inadvertently disclosing private or confidential information to online fraudsters. Instead of the phishing web page, a special warning page is displayed in the browser to inform the user that the requested web page is dangerous.

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Alternative To
     heard on Sat 11 Jul 26
AlternativeTo is a crowd-sourced and free site that helps you find better apps and services. 147,491 Apps & Software Alternatives - Ranked by 2,014,880 User Opinions

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Install PowerShell 7 on Windows
     heard on Sat 11 Jul 26
PowerShell 7 doesn't replace Windows PowerShell 5.1. It installs to a new directory and runs side-by-side with Windows PowerShell 5.1. There are some Windows PowerShell modules that can be run using the PowerShell 7 Windows Compatibility feature. Other modules require that you run them in Windows PowerShell 5.1. For more information, see PowerShell 7 module compatibility. There are multiple package versions of PowerShell 7 that can be installed. This article focuses on installing the latest stable release package. For more information about the package versions, see the PowerShell Support Lifecycle article.

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